Jesse G. Donat 🗽☮️

Holy cow, I'm actually quoted in The Register! They did a short little phone interview with me last night, so I guess I'm like famous now? ;-) theregister.co.uk/2018/02/10/git…

@AirtimeBT Today is that day! I was picking something up off the floor, and it was right there under my desk. I'd've seen it had it been there all this time, so it came from somewhere…

@donatj One day it will show up when you least expect 🙂

I've been repairing Xbox controllers in my spare time for a couple weeks now. Decided to finally tackle my original Elite last night. Taking it apart I forgot to remove the detachable magnetic D-Pad. It shot across the room somewhere. I have spent close to an hour searching my office for it. Reasonably sure it fell into a black hole.

Has GitHub just given up on their GraphQL API entirely? They killed their explorer, and every existing tool I have using it spends more time receiving 502's than working.

This is new for me - Copilot committed a 27mb Go binary it had produced while testing.

2/2 "Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda discussed a sequel called Easy Rider A.D. which would've featured Hopper and Fonda's characters brought back to life in the far future and riding across a post-apocalyptic United States"

1/2 They made a prequel to Easy Rider ...in 2012... featuring none of the original cast or crew en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Ride…

Do I have my 2 year old daughter saying "Multipass" on repeat? Yes I do.

Sending me this on a Wednesday is diabolical... @zebanderson

We're migrating to React, so I figured I'd go through a Linkedin Learning course on it… This course has been garbage in a number of ways, but encouraging beginners to use release candidates is a war crime.

@TCBurrus Yes! I really liked it but no one I know has seen it

This movie was way better than people remember.

@adahstwt Qbasic

name the programming language that made you love coding.

@abhitwt I learned ActionScript for a project like a month before apple "killed" flash with the iPhone

Programming language you learned once and never touched again?

@ModernVintageG How wildly petty of him

Nothing of value was lost

respectfully, you have no idea what you're talking about

Latest Ghostty release adds scrollbars AND cmd+f search? It's like all my Christmases at once!

@AirtimeBT lol dude, it's like common knowledge that you shouldn't build a parser using regex #1732454" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">stackoverflow.com/questions/1732… Yet for some reason popular syntax highlighters continue to do it 🤷 what is syntax highlighting if not just parsing and assigning colors

@donatj 🤣 "I am all but convinced that regex-based syntax highlighting is just a road to hell."

I have put 4-5 hours now into defining a Go syntax for a syntax highlighting library I use. I am all but convinced that regex-based syntax highlighting is just a road to hell. If this were instead AST based, it would feel much more like engineering and less like hacking together something that kind of works. I honestly think I could have built a very simple parser in less code than this is taking to try to identify parts of the code with regex... If I had any decent amount of free time these days I would be tempted to give it a shot.

@zebanderson What in the world are you up to, sir?

When ffmpeg finally gets tasked with scanning terrestrial radio for interesting audio and has to sit through the same commercials as the rest of us

This little writeup has been on my docket for a long time. "Thinking About Probabilistic Filters" donatstudios.com/probabilistic-…

Every time I see a YouTuber use an electric screwdriver into pre-threaded plastic holes I just want this person to go away. You do not know what you are doing.

The number freaking times Copilot has downgraded my version of Go because it doesn't believe the version I'm targeting exists is too damn high.

@tthomson @jack @blocks The regulatory capture of the last ten years has been stifling.

@jack @blocks The future is small, bespoke companies. Not these huge ones that see both their employees and customers as numbers on a spreadsheet. Start your own companies everyone. You can do this. This can be a beautiful era of democratised entrepreneurship.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack